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This week, we speak with Dr. Wasiq Bokhari, CEO of quantum computing firm Pasqal, to discuss its  $1.98 billion combination  with  Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II  (NASDAQ:BBCQ). Quantum computers are plugged in and doing real commercial work, but, how can you get them to collaborate with CPUs and GPUs on a single problem? Pasqal believes it may have the answer. Wasiq explains how the company ha...

This week, we speak with IQM CEO and Co-Founder Jan Goetz, and Peter Ort, CEO and Co-Chairman of Real Asset Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:RAAQ) about their $1.7 billion dollar combination, announced in February. As more quantum computing companies go public via SPACs, the industry is going global. Jan explains why IQM has based its own business model on selling quantum computing hardware and why he be...

This week, we speak with Carlos Domingo, Founder and CEO of Securitize. Securitize is working to close a business combination  with  Cantor Equity Partners II  (NASDAQ:CEPT). As the use of stablecoins spreads, the opportunity to create digital tokens of other assets is spreading as well. For public investors, there will soon also be an opportunity to invest in one of the companies making that proc...

This week, on a special edition of the SPACInsider Podcast, we speak with Vik Mittal, managing member of Meteora Capital and Ivan Deryugin, head of research for the Americas at United First Partners. Together we discuss why the digital asset treasury strategy quickly turned from a SPAC-favorite play to falling out of favor over the past year. Ivan gets into the numbers on how some of these deals h...

This week, we speak with Richard Taylor, Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of ONE Nuclear and Dan Hennessy, Chairman of Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII (NASDAQ:HVII). The two announced a $1.1 billion combination in October.   Energy demand is ballooning and the clock is ticking to keep up. That has led ONE Nuclear to a multi-technology approach to get more capacity online as fast as possible.   R...

This week, we speak with Stuart Brazier, CEO of Advanced Inhalation Rituals, or AIR , to discuss his company’s $1.7 billion combination with Cantor Equity Partners III (Nasdaq: CAEP). SPACs often bring companies from emerging technology sectors into the public markets, but sometimes it is their role to list companies that have already established themselves, albeit in something of a niche.  Stuart...

This week, we speak with Greg Twinney, CEO of General Fusion , and Chris Sorrells, CEO and Chairman of  Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III  (NASDAQ:SVAC). The two announced  a $724 million combination  in January. Fusion technology may sound like the future, but it is set to come to the public markets very soon. Greg explains General Fusion’s path to expand its technology beyond its first plant i...

Titanium, copper and water. What do they have in common? All will be products of one of the latest companies to head to the public markets via a SPAC transaction. This week, we speak with Key Mining founders Cesar Lopez and John Ryan as well as Compass Digital Acquisition Corp. CEO Tom Hennessy to break down their $303 million business combination. Cesar and John discuss how they brought together...

The past year has seen a raft of crypto treasury companies go public via SPACs. Could the next entrant be the one to consolidate the field? This week, we speak with Adam Back, CEO of Bitcoin Standard Treasury and Sean Bill, who serves as the company’s Chief Investment Officer. The two discuss their company’s $4 billion combination with Cantor Equity Partners I (NASDAQ:CEPO), announced last July. T...

The work of maintaining and supplying the US armed forces is now front and center in the daily news, but Precision Aerospace & Defense has been long been carrying out a strategy to acquire critical manufacturers and suppliers in this area. Now, it is taking that platform to the public markets in a SPAC deal. This week, we speak with Brent Borden, CEO of Precision Aerospace & Defense Group...

SPACs have populated the public markets with a variety of quantum computing hardware technology companies, and now one is poised to list the first quantum software company. This week, we speak with Dr. Joe Fitzsimons, CEO of Horizon Quantum , and Harry You, Chairman of  dMY Squared Technology Group, Inc  (OTC:DMYY). The two announced a $546 million combination in September. Joe explains how Horizo...

The Winter Olympics and the World Cup are not the only international competitions kicking off this year. The Enhanced Games is gearing up for a May debut as well, with the injection of some SPAC cash and potentially some other performance enhancing substances. This week, we speak with Maximilian Martin, CEO and Co-founder of The Enhanced Games . It announced a $1.3 billion combination  with  A Par...

Quantum computing companies have been among the highest performing de-SPAC sectors in years. And, SPACs have made a major impact on quantum computing by being the listing and financing mechanism for a large portion of the publicly traded cohort. But, the market wasn’t always so bullish on quantum. This week we return to a conversation we had with Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave (NYSE:QBTS) in February...

This week, we speak with Xanadu founder and CEO Dr. Christian Weedbrook and Bill Fradin, CEO of  Crane Harbor Acquisition Corp.  (NASDAQ:CHAC). The two announced a $3.1 billion business combination in November. Is it possible to build a business model that combines features of Amazon Web Services, NVIDIA and a biotech drug developer? Well, Xanadu aims to find out, and it is funding that path via a...

It is rare to find a SPAC deal that launches hundreds or even thousands of mergers in the future, but this one might be it. Teamshares has built a system for the programmatic acquisition of EBITDA-positive businesses that are typically too small to meet the criteria of private equity buyers. Now, it aims to accelerate these efforts with a $746 million combination with  Live Oak Acquisition Corp. V...

This week, we speak with Asheesh Birla, CEO of Evernorth. Evernorth is a crypto treasury focused on XRP, a cryptocurrency that is used in decentralized financial structures and payments. It aims to power that endeavor through its  business combination  with  Armada Acquisition Corp. II  (NASDAQ:XRPN), announced in October. Crypto treasury deals were one of the major themes of 2025 SPAC dealflow, b...

Driverless trucks have officially made it to the road and everyday operations of many shippers, but there is still plenty of room for innovation in the field. For instance, if there is no driver, why keep the driver’s compartment at all? This week, we speak with Roozbeh Charli, CEO of Einride , which is introducing fully cabless autonomous trucks into customer fleets and accelerating that rollout...

In this episode, we examine how the SPAC market evolved in 2025 and what sponsors, issuers, and investors should be thinking about as the calendar turns to 2026. Joining the discussion are Ed Kovary, Head of Capital Markets at BTIG , and Jerry Serowik, Head of Capital Markets at Cohen & Company , two firms that were among the most active in the SPAC ecosystem in 2025. Drawing on firsthand expe...

With Matt George, CEO of Merlin Labs Many firms chasing autonomous ground-vehicles have relied on SPACs to reach the public markets, and now Merlin Labs wants to bring autonomy to the skies. The Boston-based startup is developing an AI-powered “pilot,” the Merlin Pilot, designed to manage full “takeoff-to-touchdown” flights across a wide range of aircraft, from light planes to heavy transports. Th...

With Ranjeet Sundher, CEO of Tactical Resources, and Kanishka Roy, CEO and Chairman of Plum Acquisition Corp. III SPACs have played a big role in the race to develop US-based sources of rare earth materials, but few available target companies are within a few years having an operational mine. Tactical Resources aims to be the exception. This week, we speak with Ranjeet Sundher, CEO of rare earth m...

Affordability has become a major theme of 2025 and of all the areas where technology has sped up processes and brought down costs, housing has been a stubborn exception. One company that is trying to bring a new technology-based approach to this is BOXABL , and it has partnered with a SPAC to accelerate that vision. This week, we speak with Galiano Taramani, founder and co-CEO of BOXABL and Larry...

Presidio CEO Will Ulrich and EQV Ventures CEO Jerry Silvey Discuss Their $664 Million Combination How do you build a fast-growing oil and gas company without drilling single hole and without planning to at any point in the future? That may sound like a riddle, but it’s actually a business model that public investors will soon be able to invest in. This week, we speak with Will Ulrich, CEO of energ...

Infleqtion CEO Matthew Kinsella on the Business of Quantum Sensing and the Road Ahead (CCCX) With capital pouring into quantum computing, the question is no longer if it will arrive, but what other parts of the quantum world are already here? This week, we speak with Matthew Kinsella, CEO of Infleqtion . It announced a $1.8 billion business combination with  Churchill Capital Corp. X (NASDAQ: CCCX...

A conversation on nuclear’s next wave with Giordano Morichi of Terra Innovatum and Gus Garcia of GSR III Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: GSRT) Developers of small, modular nuclear reactors have been among the most prized stocks of 2025 given their potential to be big players in the energy mix as data center demand booms. This demand is massive, but when it comes to nuclear reactor design, Terra Innovat...

This week, we sit down with  Dynamix Corporation  (NASDAQ:ETHM) CEO and Chair Andrejka Bernatova, who is about to list her third SPAC in the past four years with one business combination already completed and another pending. She tells us how it has been quite the ride through the last two SPAC cycles and where she thinks SPACs at times went wrong during the last one. Right now, she is focused on...